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This is a list of massacres in Kazakhstan.
Name | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Deaths | Notes |
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Barefooted Flight | 1723—1727 | Territory of three zhuzes | Dzungars | ~700,000 Kazakhs | Mass extermination of the Kazakh people by the Dzungars |
Karakalpak genocide [1] | 1741-1743 | Younger Zhuz | Kazakhs | ~1,5 million Karakalpaks (300 thousand kibitkas) | Extermination of the Karakalpaks in the Younger Zhuz of the Kazakh Khanate during the reign of Abul Khair Khan |
Dzungar genocide | 1755–1758 | Dzungar Khanate (modern-day Dzungaria, Western Mongolia, Kazakhstan, northern Kyrgyzstan, southern Siberia, Xinjiang) | Qing Eight Banners, Kazakhs, Khalkha Mongols, Uyghur and Hui rebels | 1,5 million Dzungars [2] | Mass extermination of the Dzungars by the Qing Empire and other peoples |
Dusty campaign | 1771 | Kazakh Khanate | Kazakhs | 100,000+ Kalmyks [3] | Massacre of the Kalmyks |
Rovnenskaya massacre | 1775 | Povolzhye | Kazakh rebels | 1,800+ Germans | Attack on Povolzhye settlements |
Akmolinsk massacre | 1838 | Akmolinsk | Kazakh rebels | 600+ Russians | Attack on Akmolinsk, house burning, interception of squads |
Incidents during the Adayev uprising | 1870 | Mangyshlak Peninsula | Kazakh rebels | Thousands of Russians and Armenians | Attacks on Russian settlements |
Turkestan massacre | 1916 | Turkestan, Kazakhstan | Kazakh rebels | 7,000 Russians | Massacre of the Russians by Kazakh rebels |
Russian genocide in Central Asia | 1916-1917 | Central Asia | Russian military | 100,000-500,000 Kazakh and Kyrgyz civilians | Genocide of Central Asian people by Russian Empire |
Sergiopol massacre | 1918 | Ayagoz, Kazakhstan | Alash Militia | 100 Red Army soldiers and Russian civilians | After the capture of Sergiopol, the troops of Alash staged cruel reprisals against the civilian population in it |
Massacres in Semirechye | 1920 | Zhetysu, Kazakhstan | Alash Militia | 3,800-25,000 Annenkovites and Red Army men | The brutal reprisal of Ataman Annenkov over his former soldiers [4] |
Novouzenskaya massacre | 17-28 June 1989 | Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan | Kazakhs | ~200 Caucasians and Russians | Interethnic clashes on June 17-28, 1989 in the city of Novy Uzen of the Kazakh SSR between groups of Kazakhs and people from the North Caucasus. [5] [6] |
Zhanaozen massacre | 16–17 December 2011 | Mangystau Region, Kazakhstan | Government of Kazakhstan | 14+ Oil workers | The most notorious mass oil strike of 2011 erupted into riots in the city of Zhanaozen on December 16, in which 15 people died, hundreds were injured and arrested. |
Arkankergen massacre | 28 May 2012 | Arkankergen, Kazakhstan | Vladislav Chelakh | 15 Border guards | Mass murder in the Alakol region of Kazakhstan on the border with China, near the village of Usharal. |
Ile-Alatau National Park massacre | 13-14 August 2012 | Ile-Alatau National Park, Almaty Region | Religious extremists [7] | 12 Russians | Mass murder of 12 people by Religious extremists in Ili-Alatau National Park, Almaty region [8] [9] [10] [11] |
Qandy Qantar massacre 2022 | 03-10 January 2022 | Kazakhstan | Government of Kazakhstan | During the week-long violent unrest and crackdowns, 227 people were killed and over 9,900 were arrested, according to Kazakh officials.[13][14] | On 7 January, President of Kazakhstan said in a statement that constitutional order had "largely been restored in all regions of the country. He also announced that he had ordered troops to use lethal force against protesters, authorizing instructions to "shoot to kill" without warning, calling the protesters "bandits and terrorists" and saying that the use of force would continue to "destroy the protests."[39][40][41][42] |
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